"Trump took back the White House"

Mahdi Tadini
Trump is back. There is no doubt that this was one of the greatest comebacks in American history. Of course, I would like to say, "Trump took back the White House from Corona." Covid was an earthquake that pulled the chair out from under every president in the United States. No matter what Trump did, he would fail. The issue has to do with the American electoral system: because of the close competition between the two parties and the electoral method, the 10 percent becomes important, and in such a close struggle, a major and uncontrollable crisis like COVID-19 disrupts at least 3 to 5 percent of the vote.
You might say that Trump was negligent at the beginning of COVID, otherwise he wouldn't have failed. But this cannot be said, because as much as lenient measures created dissatisfaction, strict measures were also met with dissatisfaction. If Trump had imposed a strict lockdown, he would still have lost the election, because it would have aroused the discontent of another section. The fact that Trump said early after his election defeat that he had "lost to the Chinese virus" was not unreasonable, although we do not need to believe in conspiracy theories; this statement of objective facts is enough.
The United States has been the decisive actor in the world since World War I. If we look at the world from the perspective of ideologies, the biggest question is why anti-freedom ideologies such as fascism and communism did not emerge in the United States. The fact that the United States, unlike Europe, never turned into a factory for the production of totalitarianism and did not create fascist and communist reaction, is rooted in the origins of this country and requires a wide discussion, but at least by observing its history and objectivity, it can be understood that if it were not for the United States, Europe would not have turned its back on the totalitarian Frankensteins that it had built on its laboratory table. Communism and fascism were both European revolts: revolts against liberalism, against individual freedoms, against capitalism and its explosive progressivism.

Therefore, the United States has acted as an anchor for Europe. Britain was not enough to save Europe, and it was not able to resist fascism or communism alone. It was necessary for the transatlantic brotherhood to stand up to the totalitarianisms of Central and Eastern Europe. This equation has not changed. The relationship that existed between Europe and the United States still exists more or less, and in the meantime, what is dangerous is that there is no unique America next to Europe. The problem with the Democrats is that they seek to "Europeanize the United States." The fact that the vast majority of Europeans prefer Harris to Trump indicates that this identity gap still exists between the United States and Europe. Socialist Europe does not understand and does not want to be a friend of capitalist America. This gap should not be filled, because Europe has not emerged from the test of modernity and has dark spots in its record. Not Trump himself, but the Republicans as a whole are doing better than the Democrats in this regard and preventing the Europeanization of the United States. America is the engine room of the world, it is better to be at the helm of the defender of American identity. Europe's interest lies in the existence of this gap, even if it makes an intellectual gesture towards the United States and does not understand how effective the United States is in its own well-being and in the world.

In the end, we will come to the people of Iran. Four years passed like electricity. If the JCPOA was to be revived and the sanctions were to compensate, it could have been done four times in four years. The policy of the JCPOA was weak from the beginning because it was the result of negotiations with a closed circle of Democrats. America is not just the Democrats, and the Democrats are not just Obama's circle. If someone wants to make a treaty with the United States, he should sign it with two factions of the United States, not a government that comes and goes with a few dozen electoral votes. Any agreement with the United States must be between the two factions of the United States, and the way to do that is to have Congress behind it. It is not possible to get anywhere with the help of one faction and one circle.

This is not the policy of the Islamic Republic either. Harris would come, too, and it didn't matter. On the first day, the foreign minister poured clean water on everyone's hands and said, "We have a fundamental problem with the United States, and the problem is only to reduce the costs of this dispute." Certainly, there are difficult days ahead. When there was no effort and will to reach an agreement with Biden, it is impossible with Trump. But to be honest, there is no room for regret, for it is at least certain to me that it was the same with Harris and more lenient than Harris. Regional actors like Israel have not sat idle at all! And some of the keys are also in Russia's pocket.